Beyond The Pale - Ruckus

A genre-bending instrumental tour de force! An instrumental tour de force, featuring an equal balance of genre -bending original compositions and inventive arrangements of traditional material. With the long-awaited follow up to their multi award-winning CD Postcards Beyond the Pale re-asserts its reputation as one of Canada’s most innovative acoustic ensembles. Inspired by Klezmer and Balkan styles



but informed by everything from clas-sical and jazz to bluegrass and reggae, this stunning new collec-tion displays the virtuosic musicianship, meticulous dynamics, and exuberant energy for which the group has become known. Personnel on Ruckus: Aleksandar Gajic (violin), Bret Higgins (bass), Milos Popovic (accordion), Eric Stein (mandolin), Martin van de Ven (clarinet), with Bogdan Djukic (percussion), and Max Sennit (percussion).